by Myles Dannhausen Jr. | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
Norbert Blei began his career as a writer in the same way as did many young writers of the 1950s: at the bottom of the journalistic totem pole. Blei’s first professional job was reading and running teletype messages at Chicago’s City News Bureau. He later moved on to...
by James P. Leary | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
America’s Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where for centuries many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk traditions. As the prominent American folklorist Richard M. Dorson observed in 1947: “Particularly in the Lake...
by Jason Smith | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the quest for a more sustainable—and profitable—glass of milk, many dairy farms in Wisconsin are switching from feedlot-based operations to rotational grazing on prairie grasses and legumes like clover. According to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade,...
by Jason Smith | Dec 9, 2014 | Magazine Article
Harvest Park of downtown Reedsburg is the new home of Ruminant (The Grand Masticator), a John Deere 6600 harvesting combine clad in 34 agriculturally themed backlit stained glass panels. An endearingly outsized mash-up of stained glass, agricultural symbolism, and...
by Jane Elder | Dec 2, 2014 | Magazine Article
Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite authors, Terry Tempest Williams. In preparation for our conversation, I read her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008). The...
by Carl Corey | Sep 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Over a two-year period and in multiple installments, I walked the 480-mile Yellowstone Trail through Wisconsin. Established in 1913 as a cross-country tourist route for automobiles—the first of its kind in the United States—the Yellowstone Trail at one time connected...
